Type Theatre and gallery Architect Shay Cleary Architects Phone +353 1 881 9613 Rebuilt 2000 | Years active 1966 to present Opened 1967 Province Leinster | |
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Owner Auditorium 200 seats
Cube 80 seats Address 39 East Essex St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, Ireland Similar Abbey Theatre, Smock Alley Theatre, Gate Theatre, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Gaiety Theatre - Dublin Profiles | ||
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Project Arts Centre is a multidisciplinary arts centre based in Temple Bar, Dublin, which hosts theatre, dance, music and performance.
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History
Project Arts Centre was founded by Jim FitzGerald and Colm O'Briain in 1967 after a three-week festival at the Gate Theatre in 1966. Project Arts Centre was the first such arts centre in Ireland. The Centre had several homes before it opened for business in a converted factory on East Essex Street in 1975, after numerous issues regarding funding. This building was demolished in 1998 and a new purpose-built space containing two auditoriums, a gallery and a bar opened on the same site in 2000, as part of the second phase of the regeneration of Temple Bar. The presence of the Centre, along with a number of other cultural institutions in Temple Bar such as Irish Film Institute, the Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Black Church Print Studios, the Gallery of Photography, and Temple Bar Music Centre (now the Button Factory), inspired the regeneration of the area as a cultural quarter.
The Centre
The centre has been a venue for many of the city's performing arts festivals including Dublin Dance Festival, Dublin Writers Festival, Dublin Fringe Festival and Dublin Theatre Festival. Since the Irish recession there has been an emphasis on cross cultural productions.